Name: The Right to Maim
ISBN: 9780822368922

Jasbir K. Puar

Jasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israel's occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies and populations.

Debility, Capacity, Disability

The Right to Maim

this book cracked open my mind to numerous deconstructions of identity, disability and neo-colonialism. debilitation, as one of the main theories explored here, details how the global south has been restricted from practicing politics of liberation, from developing social mobility, justice and resource sovereignty, because our bodyminds are controlled and manipulated for the benefit of western empires' continued extraction and exploitation. the 'right' circumstances create certain repressive outputs: physiological and material occupation, conditioned scarcity, censorship, diplomatic affairs. 

The Right to Maim Debility, Capacity, Disability